{"id":40038,"date":"2024-11-14T16:14:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T16:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=40038"},"modified":"2024-11-15T07:13:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T07:13:37","slug":"broadband-networks-zzoomm-and-freedom-fibre-ponder-uk-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/11\/broadband-networks-zzoomm-and-freedom-fibre-ponder-uk-merger.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband Networks Zzoomm and Freedom Fibre Ponder UK Merger UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alternative broadband network builders Freedom Fibre<\/a> and Zzoomm<\/a>, both of which have been rolling out 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a>) networks across different parts of the country, are reportedly holding “detailed discussions<\/em>” about a possible future merger, which could create a network that covers over 500,000 premises.<\/p>\n

At present Zzoomm<\/a>’s network, which is home to over 30,000 customers (15%+ take-up) and covers 202,000 premises (RFS), is currently available across parts of around 29 market towns and small urban communities in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Herefordshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Wiltshire and Cheshire. The provider is primarily a vertically integrated operator, which acts as both the network operator and a retail ISP.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Zzoomm<\/a> is supported by a total of \u00a3224m in capital = \u00a3100m debt via banks (here<\/a>), \u00a312m from private investors (\u201cbig chunk<\/em>\u201d of that comes from Matthew Hare) and \u00a3112m via Oaktree Capital (here<\/a>).<\/div>\n

The operator originally planned to cover 1 million premises, yet the difficulties of raising fresh capital recently forced their roll-out to stop (here<\/a> and here<\/a>) and they’ve instead been focusing on growing take-up. But growth via mergers and acquisitions are something that Zzoomm’s CEO, Matthew Hare<\/strong>, is known to have been actively exploring (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Freedom Fibre<\/a>, which is backed by InfraBridge<\/strong> (DigitalBridge) and Equitix<\/strong>, is a wholesale-only network that primarily covers 315,000 premises across parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Shropshire in England. The operator previously aspired to cover 2 million premises and also holds the Government\u2019s Project Gigabit contracts for 12,000 premises in rural parts of Shropshire (here<\/a>), as well as 15,000 in Cheshire (here<\/a>). But recently they also appeared to be focusing more on growing take-up (commercialisation) than network builds (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

According to a new report on Sky News<\/a> (credits to Nick for spotting), merger talks between Zzoomm and Freedom Fibre<\/a> are said to have “progressed to a detailed stage<\/em>,” although officially Zzoomm would only confirm that they were in negotiations with “numerous<\/em>” parties and declined to comment specifically on Freedom Fibre<\/a> (the latter has yet to comment).<\/p>\n

Regular readers will know that a growing number of network operators, both big and small alike, have over the past couple of years moved to slow their network deployments (resulting in job losses) and switched their focus toward growing take-up to ensure some future stability. Such moves are a prudent course of action in the current climate of rising build costs and high interest rates, which makes it harder to raise fresh investment.<\/p>\n

One other way to tackle these challenges is through consolidation, which is something that we’ve already seen happening quite a bit. But getting such deals and network integrations right can be a costly and expensive process. In this case there’s very little network overlap between Freedom Fibre and Zzoomm, except perhaps around Northwich<\/strong> where some overbuild does exist, yet otherwise a deal between the pair does look plausible.<\/p>\n

Such a merger might well value the combined company at around \u00a3500m, although there’s currently no certainty that the pair will actually be able to reach a final agreement. Time will tell. We should point out that merger agreements like this take a long time to go through the motions, so we might not learn the outcome for a few more months.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 15th Nov 2024 @ 7am<\/strong><\/p>\n

One curious aspect of Sky’s coverage is that they name Freedom Fibre’s investor as Basalt (aka – Basalt Infrastructure Partners LLP), which had us scratching our heads because Basalt backs FullFibre Limited<\/a> (Fibre Heroes<\/a>) and not Freedom Fibre. So it’s possible Sky may have confused either their investors or the operators themselves. But we can’t blame Sky, there are now so many providers with “fibre<\/em>” in the name that it can be brain melting.<\/p>\n

FullFibre Ltd covers 380,000 UK premises and has zero overbuild with Zzoomm. Both operators also have a similar sort of approach to build and might actually be a better fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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